Thanks. I proceeded a bit further but gpg reports the following despite it having already imported the key you suggested.
% gpg -o /dev/null -v < ~/openssl_dsa_advisory.asc gpg: armor header: Hash: SHA1 gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) gpg: original file name='' gpg: Signature made Wed 07 Jan 2009 05:00:43 AM PST using RSA key ID F295C759 gpg: using PGP trust model gpg: *BAD signature *from "Dr Stephen Henson <shen...@drh-consultancy.co.uk >" gpg: textmode signature, digest algorithm SHA1 Here is the list of public keys my GPG has: % gpg --list-public-keys ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg --------------------------------- pub 2048R/F295C759 1998-12-13 uid Dr Stephen Henson <shen...@drh-consultancy.co.uk> uid Dr S N Henson <shen...@drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk> uid Dr Stephen Henson < stephen.hen...@opennetworksecurity.com> pub 1024D/89A36572 1999-12-12 uid OpenSSL Team Security Key (WARNING: SHARED KEY) < openssl-secur...@openssl.org> sub 4096g/7C2C567F 1999-12-12 Thanks, Vineet On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Dr. Stephen Henson <st...@openssl.org>wrote: > On Fri, Jan 09, 2009, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > > Before taking in the patch for the recent security advisory for > > vulnerability CVE-2008-5077, I want to verify its authenticity using GPG. > > However, I get this: > > *********** > > % (gpg --list-keys 89A36572 > /dev/null 2>&1 || gpg --recv-keys > 89A36572) > > && gpg --verify openssl_dsa_advisory.asc > > gpg: Signature made Wed 07 Jan 2009 05:00:43 AM PST using RSA key ID > > F295C759 > > gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found > > > > We don't use that shared key. That was signed with my key with ID F295C759. > See http://www.openssl.org/about/ > > Steve. > -- > Dr Stephen N. Henson. Email, S/MIME and PGP keys: see homepage > OpenSSL project core developer and freelance consultant. > Homepage: http://www.drh-consultancy.demon.co.uk > ______________________________________________________________________ > OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org > Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org > Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org >